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 creations. And it seems difficult to believe that thirty years after the Restoration there were still twelve Catholic peers as Murray says, or fifteen, if we follow King, whose attainders, often resting merely on their opposition to Cromwell, had not been reversed.

Davis, on the other hand, giving authorities for each name, declares that the total number of peers who sat was fifty-five. Among them he names the Archbishop of Armagh and five other Bishops of the Established Church, and at least nine of the temporal peers, whose names he gives, would appear to have been Protestants.

It is admitted that many of the Acts of this Parliament are distinguished by ideas of tolerance and an appreciation of the economic needs of the country far in advance of the general ideas of the age. They may be found set out in Davis' work. But two of the Acts passed have been the subject of the severest strictures from the majority of historians.